You can lay most of the issues and the front door of the graphics drivers. They simply aren't released as frequently or optimised for games like they are under windows. That's simply down to the popularity of windows gaming.

If you want to squeeze the gaming performance out of your hardware then bootcamped Windows is the way to go

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